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Archive - 19 Dec 2008

Take up rate

Talkback With an estimated population of 60 million it will take an awful long time at this take up rate. And that's, of course, if David Cameron doesn't squash the whole thing, close down all the offices...

Most-used mobile browser is S60's native WebKit browser

Talkback You wrote: "Fennec will compete against existing mobile browsers, including Apple's Safari Mobile, Google's Chrome Lite, Opera Mobile and Skyfire." Don't forget Symbian! Every S60 Symbian phone...

RE:EeePC 901 on Orange mobile broadband

Blog Comment Sandra, You say: "notwithstanding that for £14.68 a month you can get a USB dongle with the same 3GB usage cap and shove that into whatever notebook you choose"... But I've been trying Vodafone's...

Sony: Netbooks are 'in-between' products

Video Nicolas Barendson, head of the UK Vaio business, explains how Sony sees the netbook evolving into a different format, and the state of the laptop market for businesses and consumers

Sun upgrades xVM VirtualBox

Blog Sun Microsystems said on Wednesday that it has upgraded its x VM VirtualBox desktop virtualisation software to version 2.1. It has introduced a range of enhancements to the software including...

What vendors really mean by 'open source'

Comment Vendors may describe a particular software offering as 'open source', but you'd do well to examine their words extremely carefully, says Mark Taylor

RE:openSuSE 11.1 Released

Blog Comment Update: Found it! (the Winter Penguin splash screen) It turns out that the GRUB gfxmenu is actually a cpio archive, which contains a number of interesting things, such as graphic files that can...

Get Fit For Summer !

Blog I'm jumping on the bandwagon of what seems to be typical at this festive time of year, The Diet/Excersise Celebrity DVD. So, I’m launching My Get-Fit-For-Summer-Workout-Plan. That’s right...

Home secretary reveals early ID-card demand

News Jacqui Smith says the Identity and Passport Service received 1,142 requests for ID cards between November 2006 and October 2008

Google reveals upcoming Android features

News A private development effort for Android has begun feeding new features, such as video recording and stereo Bluetooth, into the wider development effort

Apple gets stake in UK mobile-graphics chip designer

News Imagination, which designs graphics cores for mobile phones, has a new corporate backer, after Apple bought a 3.6 percent stake in the company

Microsoft extends mobile Exchange licensing scheme

News The company has posted technical docs designed to let developers build on the ActiveSync protocol, which connects mobile devices to Exchange Server

RIM upbeat despite drop in profits

News Despite a third-quarter profit drop, RIM's fourth-quarter outlook exceeded analyst expectations, on the back of Storm and Bold sales

EeePC 901 on Orange mobile broadband

Blog I've been playing with the EeePC 901 as offered by Orange for 'free' on a mobile broadband contract. Now, I am not sure that tying yourself in to £24.47 a month for two years is necessarily a...

Apple TV draws patent lawsuit

News A US maker of wireless set-top boxes has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against the tech giant over Apple TV

openSuSE 11.1 Released

Blog The openSuSE Project made their 11.1 release available yesterday. I have downloaded and installed it on both of my laptops, and it looks very good. At least for the specific hardware and...

Tech industry M&A down 40pc in 2008

News Next year is likely to bring just as few mergers and acquisitions in the industry, but with more twists, according to a study by research firm The 451 Group

Oracle posts lower profits, revenue climbs 6pc

News The company has reported fiscal second-quarter results that saw revenue up six percent, but net income shrinking

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